use strict; use warnings; my $match = 'ArAuthFrameworkImpl::doPostAuth.*Authentication\s*mechanism\s*returned\s*\[(..*­)\]\s*for\s*AuthIdentity\s*\[(..*)\]'; my $outText; open my $outFile, '>', \$outText; while (my $line = ) { chomp ($line); if ($line =~ /^(.*)INFO:.*QNA Step - AUTH IN PROGRESS/) { my $Time_Stamp = $1; printf $outFile "$Time_Stamp,"; QnA_search_for_sucess_or_failure (); } } close $outFile; print "\n\n$outText\n"; sub QnA_search_for_sucess_or_failure { while (my $line = ) { if ($line =~ /QNA Auth.*Success\s*and\s*Complete/) { printf $outFile "Success,"; print "In Success,\n"; my $ErrorMsg = "null"; while ($line = ) { if ($line =~ /$match/) { print "$2\n"; printf $outFile "$2, ${1}, $ErrorMsg\n"; return; } } } if (defined $line and $line =~ /Message.*QNA\s*Auth\s*Failed\((..*)\).*/) { my $ErrorMsg = $1; printf $outFile "Failure,"; print STDOUT "In Failure,\n"; while ($line = ) { if ($line =~ /$match/) { print "$2\n"; printf $outFile "$2, ${1}, $ErrorMsg\n"; return; } } } } } __DATA__ Tue May 19 22:55:13.649 2009 Morocco Standard Time INFO: pid 2172 tid 3412: 160: 10083504: QNA Step - AUTH IN PROGRESS Tue May 19 22:55:13.649 2009 Morocco Standard Time INFO: pid 2172 tid 3412: 160: 10083504: QNA Auth - Success and Complete, Returning SUCCESS Tue May 19 22:55:13.665 2009 Morocco Standard Time INFO: pid 2172 tid 3412: 17: 10083504: ArAuthFrameworkImpl::doPostAuth::1:10083487:: Authentication mechanism returned [0] for AuthIdentity [12345] and for QnA failure the line comes like this in place of success line-- Tue May 19 22:56:21.962 2009 Morocco Standard Time INFO: pid 2172 tid 688: 160: 10083554: Err[115261735], Message: QNA Auth Failed(Invalid Credentials), Repeating the challenge and Returning FAILED